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Tabula Rasa

No elves were harmed in the making of this MMO

Words: Joshua LaTendresse, GamesRadar US
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Tabula Rasa will further enhance this fresh combat system with "instanced" missions spawned specifically for your battalion. This mimics the team-based play found in the shooter Battlefield 1942, and instanced missions appear in almost every MMORPG, but it will be on a much more massive scale here.

Even the visual style is a departure from the MMO standard: the concept art is Ghostbusters meets Aliens, via the Blade Runner universe. Not an elf or fairy in sight. You'll get a good look at it, too: the HUD has been stripped away to a bare minimum; you'll be immersed in the world, not your inventory sheet.

So far, Tabula Rasa looks like a hotspot for a vacation from your fantasy addiction. This unholy fusion of two genres will likely spawn a massive 12-letter game-genre acronym along the lines of MMOFPSRPGBLB, but we're nonetheless intrigued to play it. We're dying to know whether Garriot's plan is crazy or genius.


 
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Tabula Rasa

Genre: Role Playing
Expected release date: 10/19/2007
Published by: NCSoft
Developed by: Destination Games
Designer: Richard Garriott
Min system requirements: 2.5 GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600/NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 w/128MB of VRAM, broadband
Recommended system: 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon x1800 or NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series video card
Multiplayer Modes:
Online
MMO player MMO
1000s player MMO
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